Admin - Django Web Development with Python 9

Key Takeaways

What is going on everybody? Welcome to another Django with Python for web development tutorial. In this tutorial, what we're going to be talking about is the admin app that comes with your Django applications. So uh the first thing we need to do if we want to utilize the admin is um as you'll see if we go to our website okay and you want to go to admin you just do slashadmin and you get here and then you start thinking hm uh what do I do now admin right so you don't have an admin you don't know what the login is so the first thing you have to do is actually create a super user or an admin so that's what we're going to do first so we're going to go and break the running server and we'll go up here and get manage.py. And what we want to do is python manage.py create super user. Hit enter. And then now you can define the user. I'll just call mine admin. Email address uh hskinsleyhmail.com. Password whatever you want it to be. I think I picked a pretty pretty good one. Okay, got our user and I need to log in before I forget the password. So, we'll come over here and the username will be admin. Oh, wait, hold on. We need to uh run the server. Create super user. So, manage.py run server. Uh, and now what we want to do is log in. So you'll go, you know, your your website/admin password. [Music] Good. Okay. So once you've done that, you log in. This is the Django administration. So you'll see here that you've got uh groups and you've got users in here. Uh and then what you could do is, you know, you can click on groups for example there. We don't have any groups, but you could like plus add a group and do fancy stuff here. And you can go into users and look at that. There we are. And we could set um you know are we an active user. If you uncheck this, it's basically the equivalent of deleting an account. It doesn't delete the account, but it doesn't let them log in. Staff status, super user status. You can create custom groups and give very specific custom user uh permissions. What can they this user actually do? You've got all this stuff. Blah blah blah. Okay, cool. But we don't really care that much about that. What we really want is well, we want a pony, right? We want to be able to access our blog table basically here uh and edit the blog, post blogs, do everything via this administration panel, okay? Because we want a pony. So, what we're going to do is uh first we have to admit that we're not going to get a pony, but Django is going to give us something close to a pony. So, what we're going to do is we're going to go into blog and you should already have an admin.py file. Go ahead and open that up. And you'll see that we're importing some stuff naturally. And then you can register your models here. So what we're going to do is from blog.models import posts. So that's our post class which defines that table and all that fun stuff. Now what we're going to do is simple admin.register register and we register post. Save that. Come back to your admin panel. Go back to the home. Boom. There's post. Oh my goodness. So now you can see that we got add and change. And we can also click, but there's zero post. But then we can also add a post here. So let's go ahead and add a post. Hermager Django is awesome. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. And then for date, what's cool is you can very quickly just say today right now. And uh save and add another. Let's say is today really December. Oh my goodness, it's December. Anyway, probably by the time anybody's seeing this, it'll be even later. Anyway, uh save. And you can either save and continue editing. You can save and add another. Or you could just save. And we'll save and add another. And um then we'll say amazing grace today and now. Save and add another uh hello world. Good. Hia. And then we'll do today and now. But you can also do like this like you could say uh this post was back in September. Okay. Save. All right. So now these are our admin, blog, and posts. So let's go back home. And you would like if you just logged in admin, you'd see this. You could click on post, see like, okay, cool. Here's all our posts. Hello world and blah blah blah. And you could edit it. You could delete it. You could save and continue editing and save and add another. Cool. So now, what if we just go to our homepage and we click on blog. There's our information, right? It's just there. And sure enough, the titles are links. And in our excitement, we click on one and ah, it doesn't work. Why doesn't it work, you ask? Well, of course, we don't have any URL path that explains uh or works with slashblog/2. We can even see, well, at least here's slashblog, but this is the homepage, right? It required it to be slashblog, not slashblog 2. So, now what we have to do is create uh the handling. We need the URLs. We need a view um for the individual posts. So, um that's what we're going to be covering in the next tutorial. This one should be quick and easy. Quick and painless, easy enough for you guys to get up to this point. But if you had any problems, uh feel free to leave them below. One thing to keep in mind, if this is the first time you visited the admin, which if you're following along, it probably was. If it didn't work for whatever reason, you can always go to my site, go to settings, and make sure admin is installed. So you'd come down here, make sure that you have this line. It should be there by default. Um, but if it's not there for whatever reason, you might need to add that part. Okay, so uh that's that. As always, thanks for watching. Thanks for all the support, subscriptions, and until next time.